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A crowd in Bristol yesterday tore down a statue of the 18th century slaver Edward Colston
and threw it into the River Avon. Colston founded many public buildings and institutions in
they city on the money he made from trading nearly 90,000 African slaves and from goods
laboured on by them. The statue had been the subject of controversy for some time, with
arguing even now that he should be remembered as a great philanthropist. Supporting the
Black Lives Matter protests in the USA, the crowd took matters into their own hands.
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In he goes, into the water,
Into the Sea
This Merchant Of Death
Touting slavery.
Commemorated, celebrated
O'er three hundred years
For a legacy of Empire's
Bloody Ocean of Tears.
Built on black backs
This memorial scar
An idol of vain Self
In dirty copper.
In he goes, into the water,
Into the Sea.
And history's unchained,
Unbound. And free.
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